Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/11/28 Qianqian Fang <address@hidden>:
> Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>
>> Given the 1-bit bitmap limitation most glyphs look pretty good but the
>> 灱 glyph just above the UmingCN title in the taskbar is particularly
>> ugly. Is this an expected limitation of this rendering method that
>> some glyphs simply turn out ugly or is this a bug in the font?
>>
>
> ok, now I see which glyph you were talking about. No, to me,
> "灱" is not particularly ugly. It has comparable quality
> to others. They are definitely sub-optimal compared with
> the manually hinted bitmaps, but they are usable for this size.

It's good enough to read the character but if I designed a theme with
this character in some large caption I would immediately start looking
for a font that has a decent glyph for this character. It's far from
nice to look at.

Thanks

Michal